17-28 Fisheye Zoom for Full Frame for Nikon and Canon

Interests:Diving and underwater photography of course with a little rebreathers, cave diving, marine science and natural history thrown in.

Posted 13 November 2009 - 02:22 PM

Hey full frame users. Here’s a thought, how about creating a petition to Tokina to produce a 17-28mm f3.5-f4.5 Fisheye zoom lens for Nikon and Canon mounts. It was done once before for Pentax, producing the SMCP-F Fisheye Zoom 17-28mm f3.5-f4.5 Lens, and Tokina still holds the plans.

At 17 mm it covers 180 degrees diagonally on a FX (full frame 35mm camera). Being a fish eye zoom it naturally exhibits heavy barrel distortion in particular at the wide end. But, for anyone familiar with Tokina’s 10-17 lens on DX format cameras knows exactly what they are getting.